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A living poem can energise another poem at five hundred years distance, or across the other side of the world.

— Michael Schmidt

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A poem works or fails to work; no amount of argufying can convert an experienced reader.

Getting poetry published', in, Writer's and Artist's Yearbook (2004)

Poetry is a collaborative art, and yet—as it is being created—the most solitary and 'individual' of activities.

In poetry much of the sense and most of the pleasure resides in the sounds the poem make.

Poetry is a process, a form of discovery, which if it serves a cause, transcends it.

Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves language and explores it.

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